Kiriko: Overwatch's Favourite Child

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Kiriko feels like someone's self insert OC that has like 20 abilities for no reason Edit : I want to add that she is just shoved into the lore, its supposed to be 20 and 35 years old at the same time and uses magic in a game where everyone uses technology and its the cutesy japanese anime fox girl and everyone loves her. This screams Sonic OC levels of writting

Kiriko is good at EVERYTHING. No weaknesses, always meta, and ALWAYS gets skins every season. Blizzard made it so obvious she’s their cash cow and I hate it

At this point just have kitsune rush heal 125 hp per second and give 100 overhealth and make you invincible and pay off your student loans on use

bro the background footage is just rory killing the whole backline 😂

The amount of shots missed trying to kill that Mercy was unfortunately very relatable 😂😂

“I’m a projectile DPS player”. It’s ok to say you’re a junk main this is a safe space.

I love her character, or rather, the one we should have gotten. In the cinematic, she seems so kind and wholesome, and it was a massive vibe. In-game, she’s just, a moody bitch. She’s mean to everyone, and needlessly sasses and insults people. I much prefer the Kiriko we got from the cinematic than the one we got in-game.

One small thing about Kiriko is that she threw a monkey wrench into the lore of Overwatch. Like Blizzard refuses to acknowledge magic being a thing in OW and Hanzo and Genji's ults can be passed off as nanobots or something like that. Kirko throwing a bag of flower to cleanse her allies, her blinking through walls to allies, and her kitsune rush summoning a FOX SPIRIT... yea blizzard is trying to say that isn't magic. Most characters are using sci fi tools, but then we got Kiriko who uses magical weapons. Edit: The comment section reminded me of kiriko’s age and i completely forgot about her age. She has no right being in her 20’s while the shimada brothers are in their 30’s to 40’s. Blizzard’s writing team for overwatch screwed up basic logic with their lore recently

The fact that they added a second immortality ability to the game on a support character still astounds me. Bap lamp was bad enough but Suzu is something else.

What surprises me the most about kiriko is that she became the perfect heal bot by accident. Once she gets to higher ranks she’ll always have someone in a good position to tp to, her heals can’t be stopped by anti and unlike Moira her heals are consistent without the need to manage a meter.

The only necessary nerf for kiriko, is banning her from getting new skins for a year

Kiriko is genuinely the most problematic hero ever added, not just to the game, but just in general to the franchise. - Overtuned and overcompensated kit. She doesn't have any weaknesses, and can effectively counter/play into anything (Without having to change how the hero is normally played). - Anytime she gets a nerf, she gets a bunch of compensation that usually makes it a net buff anyway. - No risk, High Reward gameplay loop. Very low skill floor. - Gets a new skin every month. - You can figure out everything about Kiriko simply by looking at her. What you would think when someone says "Japanese Aesthetics" (Take Mei for example. When you look at Mei, you can tell that she's ice-themed. However, you'd have to do a bit of digging to find out that she's a climatologist who is sweet and optimistic despite how tragic her past is. None of her personality or design has anything to due with the fact that she's Chinese.) - Lore and Age make no sense, and contradicts / overwrites pre-established lore. (Basically, Shoved into lore at the expense of retconning Genji and Hanzo's story (Similar to a self-insert)). Blizzard wanted to cash in on the idea of a "secret third Shimada" and wanted her to be connected to the Shimada Bros (Which she really didn't need to be), but couldn't be bothered to make her older than 30, because then she couldn't be "Young and Quirky" like Dva. - Blizzard insists that she has to be a part of everything despite the community's strong hatred and disinterest towards her. - Bland and boring personality. No flaws. Feels like she gets all her lines from the "quirky" character in a Nickelodeon sit com. - Has been S-tier since Day 1 and still hasn't received any large scale nerfs.

kiri REEKS of fanfic OC energy. she's carelessly tossed into the lore and apparently "grew up" with hanzo and genji (who are 20 years older so wth) she has sarcastic one liners for everyone in the cast, and shes pretty much the trademark "relatable teenager" character her gameplay sells the deviantart OC nature of her design too, her kit feels like a middlesxhooler designed it. "shes a ninja like genji but she heals people and she can teleport and shes completely invincible and she can make her teammates invincible AND she counters ana and every other status effect in the game AND she can 2shot any pesky dps that gets on her nerves AND her ult makes her do handsigns like my favorite anime AND-" oh my goodness i hate her so much i didnt rven want to rant a whole essay like this but it just feels like someone on the team hired their kid l to make this character

I love how u didn't even mention wall-climb in this video and even without it her kit still feels heavily loaded that people forget about it lol

Suzu is just a bottle of Men's 13 in 1 shampoo

All this on a hitbox measured in microns is what gets me. If they want her to be all this and smol, give her Tracer hp.

As a support main, I just wanted a cleanse like Zarya 😅. Not a damn 15 in 1 ability

Lorewise Kiriko survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki by throwing Suzu

Tracer will always be the icon of Overwatch to me. Regardless of what favoritism Blizzard shows to Kiriko. (I played Overwatch 1).